proliferation

See also: prolifération

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French prolifération

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɹəˌlɪfəˈɹeɪʃən/
• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

proliferation (countable and uncountable, plural proliferations)

1. (uncountable) The process by which an organism produces others of its kind; breeding, propagation, procreation, reproduction.
2. (countable) The act of increasing or rising; augmentation, amplification, enlargement, escalation, aggrandizement.
   • 2013 July 19, Mark Tran, “Denied an education by war”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 6, page 1:

     One particularly damaging, but often ignored, effect of conflict on education is the proliferation of attacks on schools […] as children, teachers or school buildings become the targets of attacks. Parents fear sending their children to school. Girls are particularly vulnerable to sexual violence.

3. (countable) The result of building up; buildup, accretion.
4. (uncountable) The spread of biochemical, nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction to countries not originally involved in developing them.

Derived terms

• alloproliferation
• angioproliferation
• antiproliferation
• autoproliferation
• counterproliferation
• endoproliferation
• fibroproliferation
• horizontal proliferation
• hyperproliferation
• hypoproliferation
• immunoproliferation
• lymphoproliferation
• malproliferation
• myeloproliferation
• neuroproliferation
• non-proliferation
• nonproliferation
• osteoproliferation
• overproliferation
• proliferational
• reproliferation
• underproliferation
• vertical proliferation

 

Translations

the process by which an organism produces others of its kind

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 增殖 (zh) (zēngzhí)

• Dutch: proliferatie (nl) f
• Finnish: lisääntyminen (fi)
• French: prolifération (fr) f
• German: Sprossung f, Knospung f, Vermehrung (de) f
• Greek: πολλαπλασιασμός (el) m (pollaplasiasmós)
• Italian: proliferazione (it) f
• Japanese: 増殖 (ぞうしょく, zōshoku)
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• Korean: (세포의)증식 ((sepoui)jeungsik), (동식물의)번식 ((dongsingmurui)beonsik)
• Polish: rozprzestrzenienie n
• Portuguese: proliferação (pt)
• Russian: размноже́ние (ru) n (razmnožénije), распростране́ние (ru) n (rasprostranénije), разрастание (ru) (razrastánije)
• Serbo-Croatian: proliferácija (sh), пролифера́ција
• Slovene: razmnoževanje (sl) n
• Spanish: proliferación
• Swedish: förökning (sv)

the act of increasing or rising

• Finnish: lisääntyminen (fi)
• German: Zunahme (de) f, Verstärkung (de) f, Vergrößerung (de) f, Wucherung (de) f (medical)
• Greek: πολλαπλασιασμός (el) m (pollaplasiasmós), αύξηση (el) f (áfxisi), πλήθυνση (el) f (plíthynsi)
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• Italian: proliferazione (it) f
• Russian: увеличе́ние (ru) n (uveličénije), рост (ru) m (rost), (of cells) пролифера́ция (ru) f (proliferácija)
• Slovene: večanje n, dviganje f, dviganje n, širjenje n

the result of building up

• Russian: увеличе́ние (ru) n (uveličénije), рост (ru) m (rost)
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the spread of weapons of mass destruction

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 擴散／扩散 (zh) (kuòsàn), 扩散 (zh) (kuòsàn)

• Dutch: proliferatie (nl) f
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• German: Verbreitung (de) f
• Russian: распростране́ние (ru) n (rasprostranénije)